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Jul
27
Jul
27
We have the honor to present SAS Masters for the first time in Lithuania.
SAS Masters is the biggest and most famous annual tournament in Scandinavia for professional players, also the third biggest tournament in Europe.
For Lithuania this will be the first professional tournament ever held and it will create golf history since it will be the biggest golf tournament in Lithuania’s history so far.
Tournament will be held in Capitals golf club.
Jul
27
On August 7-8, 2009, international rock festival “Rock Nights 2009” will take place on a borderland of Latvia, not far from Daugavpils. It is the biggest rock festival in the Baltic.
The festival will occur already for the 7th time – first time it was organized in 2003 and already then it became an international event of rock culture. Each year this festival hosts about 5-7 thousand rock and rock’n’roll music lovers from Lithuania and other countries. This year for the first time the festival will take place on Zarasai island that is located only 20 km from Latvian borderline, and it is expected that also rock lovers from Latvia will show a huge interest about this festival, which is full of traditions.
This year the most famous Scandinavian folk-metal band “Korpiklaani” will perform at the festival. These Finland’s rockers currently are one of the most wanted bands at European rock festivals. At the beginning of August, right before the performance at “Rock Nights”, “Korpiklaani” will give a concert to 70000 huge audience of hard metallists at the one of the biggest metal festivals in Wacken ( Germany).
The best Lithuanian rock musicians have joint together in a special Metallica Tribute project. An interesting fact is that it is a tradition that fans of the festival choose which band’s tribute project has to be created this year, and what will be its repertoire. Previous years fans have listened to the tribute projects of KISS, AC/DC, U2 and Bon Jovi.
This year one of the most popular Scandinavian industrial metal bands “Deathstars” ( Sweden) are going to perform at the festival.
Besides, it will be possible to listen not only to traditional rock, hard & heavy music style, but also to something lighter – indie&punk stars from Finland “Disco Ensemble”.
There will be also Lithuanian gothic rock pioneers – the band “Siela” (soul) that started its activity in 1990s and Lithuanian rock legends “Katedra”.
Thanks to the “Rock Nights 2009” fans and their voting in the festival’s home page and thanks to active collaboration between organizers and bands, it is already clear that there will be also the best Lithuanian and Latvian traditional pleiad in Zarasai. These are now classics, “Rojaus Tūzai”, BIX, SBS, perspective “Soul Stealer” with Jeronim Milium, “Rebelheart”, “IR”, “Atika”, “Wozu”, metalists from Kaunas “Thundertale”, as well as other well-known performers from Lithuania and other Baltic States. Together there will be more than 30 bands on 3 stages.
This year 5 bands from Latvia are going to participate at the festival:
“The Hobos”,
“Laime Pilnīga”
“Backflow”
“Invasion”
“Screampiece”
As traditionally, a camping area, various possibilities of sporting – football and volleyball, and different activities – theatre, cinema and circus will be available at the festival.
Jul
24
On 20 July Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the winner of the quiz “Millennium of Lithuania. Culture and History”. The winner of the main prize is Masha Serebryanaya from Ukraine.
M.Serebryanaya has won a four-day trip to Lithuania for two people. In Lithuania she will visit Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, also Trakai and Kernavė, the ancient capital cities of Lithuania, the Baltic seaside and the Curonian Spit. She will have an opportunity to take part in the events of the programme “Vilnius – European Capital of Culture” and celebration of the millennium of Lithuania.
The winner has been chosen by a lucky draw out of 922 participants, who answered all questions of the quiz correctly. Over 2000 people from 51 states took part in the quiz. The participants could take part in the quiz from 29 May until 15 July.
Ten more winners of the quiz, who answered all questions correctly, have also been determined by the draw. Participants from Belarus, the Czech Republic, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Russia and Spain won photo albums “Unseen Lithuania” by Marius Jovaiša.
“We are glad that so many people have taken interest in the quiz and we have received so many correct answers. Questions were not very easy, therefore, foreign citizens had to think about them or search for information,” said the spokesperson of Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rolandas Kačinskas.
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs is grateful to all the participants of the quiz, who took interest in the Lithuanian history, culture and modern politics, and congratulates the winners.
The winners of the quiz will be contacted personally. The names of the winners are announced on the website: quiz.mfa.lt.
Jul
23
The idol of musicals - LANA GORDON (USA) during the fifteen years of her career earned the public’s recognition and love throughout all the world.
First performer’s debut was in 1997, Broadway theater, in the musical “Lion King”, the second Lana Gordon’s role in not less well-known musical “Jesus Christ Super Star” also won the best critical assessments.
Since 2003 Lana Gordon performs the role of Anita in the L. Bernstein musical “West Side Story”, and from 2006 performs Carmen in Latin pop opera “Carmen Cubana”.
Currently the singer records her new album with the original sound mix of rock, rnb and soul music.
This project - concert “Do not let the borders fall” is organized to support the Pazaislis Monastery. In the same project of 2008 was collected over 20,000 litas.
Pazaislis Camaldolese monastery - a unique baroque monument which is considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of the mature baroque in northern and eastern Europe.
Pažaislis Monastery, the pearl of the Lithuanian mature Baroque of the European scale settled by Kauno Marios (Kaunas Lagoon), hosts international Pažaislis music (classical) festivals every summer. Pazaislis monastery established by Kristupas Pacas, the chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the founding act was signed in 1664 and the Monastery was built in 1667-1712 built as the most important camaldolese hermitage in Lithuania and Poland.
So feel the power of significant musicals’ melodies and support the Pazaislis Camaldolese monastery!
Jul
22
Lithuanian Museum of Folk Art invites all to the Anna Day and ryes harvest festival on 25 of July at 12 am., which will be held at Mičiūnų homestead, the village of Highland. We will bake the bread, churn the butter, congratulate Annas, reap ryes and wish good health to each other!
After the ryes harvest the songs, dances, fresh bread and other regale of the new harvest awaits you.
So welcome all Annas, reapers and spectators to the ryes harvest festival!
Programme of the festival:
12.00 - Bread-baking ceremony.
12.30 – Congratulations and gifts to all Annas
13.00 - Demonstration of ancient harvest tools
13.15 – Reapers‘ escort to the fields.
13.30 – The ritual for the first sheaf
14.00 – Giving honour to the last sheaf.
wreath making at the end of work
ceremonial delivery of the wreath to the hosts
15.00 – Regale of finishing the harvest: songs, dances, games, regale.
Jul
21
Date: From 2009-07-07 To 2009-10-20
Location: Museum of Applied Arts - Arsenalo st. 3A, Vilnius
The exhibition dedicated for the prehistoric fine arts of the Balts region until the formation of Lithuanian state. Expressive articles of the prehistoric fine arts have never been presented in Europe nor in Lithuania in any exhibition, there are no catalogue of overall contemporary polygraphy. The exhibition will reflect the Balts and the Celts and their world-view; the art of the Balts and the influence of the Roman Empire; the Balts, the Germanic peoples and the Empire of Charlemagne.
